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Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels across country in my mobile billboard truck as I attempt to engage in dialogue with people in hopes to wake us up and inspire action to change our country and communities and selves. And it is froth with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society and life we want

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

The inside job

I’m wide awake these mornings 4:45, 5:00am – Sunday I woke at
4:15am – no matter how late I try to keep myself awake at nite.

This morning I take the short walk thru the damp darkness to
the bathroom, the barest outline of the moon pushing thru thick clouds, like a thin bright
sliver stubbornly glowing thru dark bunched hotel drapes.

It began to rain last nite a little after 6, just a slow
infrequent drip or two, gathering sporadic strength throughout the nite to end
around 3am. This morning the nite silence remains as the sky lightens, leaves
sticking wetly to each other dampening the usual sounds of small animal scurries.

I think about how the forecast was able to confidently state
the rain would start around 6pm – and I remember not so many years ago when I
sold outside at flea markets being at the mercy of the skies and how the
forecaster was so undependable it led my daughter to proclaim frequently over
my fury at their ineptitude “Mom, just goes to show ya just can’t predict the weather”!

And even less years ago, I recall a friend of hers talking about how
‘they’ have learned how to control the weather, how ‘they’ can cause
earthquakes in corners of the world where there have never been earthquakes, as in lands of
suspected al queda headquarters, tidal waves where people are refusing to turn
over their fresh water supply to bechtel and coca-cola, hurricanes where too many
people have been devastated by imperialism and u.s. empire.

I remember feeling startled & so sad at the paranoia of this younger
generation, as I was attributing such freakish weather to the millions of tons of bombs
and depleted uranium we’re pounding onto the earth 7,000 miles away, the
destruction of our atmosphere, our water, our lands, our oceans catalyzing more
destruction.

For no man can control Mother Nature, or so I believed. Like
believing the bay bridge could never fall, or my Mom would live forever?

For now, with another storm threatening on top of Sandy, how many people in New York City will be able to vote? Or on the
eastern coast? In the ‘devastated’ areas of this land?

Only 22% of the registered voters are expected to vote
anyway.

I know that both Cuba and Haiti have been really, truly
devastated – and I know that this election is not offering us any real choices,
as always in this country, but to have the thought cross my mind that
controlling the weather can control the outcome of an election, is like having
the thought cross my mind that 9/11 was an inside job.

But there are so many other ways they have to control the vote in this country. And when I look back over our real history, they've ALWAYS had many ways to control the vote. And we've always fought hard against their control.

About Me

i'm now a 67, almost 68 (who am I kidding almost fuckin 70!!!) yr old (still with a golden age pass to get into national parks FREE) jewish lesbian anti-racist mother - and grandmother - striving radical womonist/feminist; daughter & granddaughter of survivors of the holocaust, mother of a young amazon healer & amazing human being, lover of wimmin & student of conscious living............even tho i am the one actually driving the truck, i could not even head out from home if it were not for the support of many, many, many wimmin (and several men as well). i am now working on trying to publish my book "But What Can I Do? A Handbook for change: myself, my community, my country. I still continue to offer Racism Awareness workshops geared for White people, NO DRONES workshops, and any other that is needed. if you want to help support this journey, email me!